Giants. I have been very fortunate to have the love and support of my family ands with pell my mother and father, a postal worker, who with a number of other sung unc and relatives set my desire to serve. I have four older sisters. And most importantly, most importantly, my bride charlene. I have been lucky to have her by my side for all of these years and im so grateful for her enduring love and support. You know i cement tough issues and challenging parts of the world. We have worked closely together on some tough issues. And we have gotten to know each other under intense and High Pressure situations. And sir, you can expect that as the secretary of defense that she will have the same direct and unvarnished council that i did back then. I understand the Important Role for maintaining stability, detearing aggression, and supporting critical alliances around the world. Including in asia pacific, europe, and arnold the world. I believe that as you said. And that we work hand in hand wi
The long support of my family as well. My mother and father, who was a postal worker, who along with a number of uncles and other relatives, spent time in the military. That inspired my own desire to serve. I also have enjoyed the strong port of my brother and four older sisters four older sisters and most importantly, most importantly, my bride charleen, who i have truly lucky to have by my side all these years, and i am so grateful for her enduring love and for her support. You know, i spent much of my military career tackling tough issues and formidable adversaries in challenging parts of the world. President elect biden, as you mentioned, we have worked closely together on tough issues and have gotten to know each other under intense and highpressure situations. Sir, you can expect that, as secretary of defense, i will give you the same direct and unvarnished counsel that i did back then. I understand the Important Role of the department of defense and the role that it plays in mai
Potential. Skills every child in america needs, any childhood will tell you this fact and so will ever mother. The first five years of the childs life is the window we have to give the most essential skills for success. Millions of families that are struggling this is an they wont get. The block that youly on, should not determine the success of the life that you have. The is why we need to make investments today to bring affordable prek to every child in america. This gives every child a chance own to make strong sure their hard work takes them go. Far they can every dollar that you invest in it is anducation, important for our overall today. It means more working mothers get to stay in the work force, for their children and stay on a path to advance their careers. The wholeod for economy. Critics say our debt and we cant afford this. I agree we have to do more to the deficit under control. Every budget we write is about we fight for. In a global economy, when were countries and marke
Husbands and would have seen that as arrogant and inappropriate, but i certainly see them as heroines myself, and i think they have the right stuff. [laughter] [applause] this program is part of the seventh annual savannah book festival. For more information visit savannah book festival. Org. Megan mcardle argues that the u. S. Is unique in its willingness to let its citizens and businesses fail and says this is whats made the country successful. This hourlong Program Starts now on booktv. Thank you, everybody for coming. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im tim carney, a visiting fellow here as well as a senior Political Columnist at the examiner or what i do here is the two programs one is called the cultural competition where we talk about competition, talk about things like subsidies and crony capitalism and when competition yields good fruit and when the pursuit of profit might not just good food. The other thing i work on is called the program on human flourishing, wh
In the country is here in San Francisco, the Bay Area Community exchange. Could start using that to mobilize volunteers, so i encourage you to check it out. Another thing to think about is public banking. It is not necessarily a different currency, but it would be a different way of handling money. For instance, san franciscans could do it. A good but the money instead of in wells fargo or whatever, a private commercial bank, into a bank that is owned by us, and that the interest goes into city treasury, and we extend credit to ourselves. Theres really innovative things that are happening, and that our public banking laws being lodged in a number of i think it is, like, 13 states right now. Very innovative things happening. In the back. There are a lot of assets you are sharing that are really great at the Grassroots Level and bottomup, but there are also things that are done the need to be shared such as Public Transit that cannot be done bottomup and have to be done top down. I wonde